“Julie Gold has a winner in From A Distance . . . It is one of those rare songs that has struck such a deep chord with the public that it succeeded in spite of not being trendy or formulaic.”

- Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“Grammy Award winner Julie Gold…provides evidence that Tin Pan Alley has not been completely strip-mined – the forms and spirits of Irving Berlin and Sammy Cahn flow through new Gold standards like Good Night, New York.”

- Deborah Frost, New York Newsday

“It (From A Distance) wasn’t written as a song about war, exactly. It’s more a reflection on the human tendency to lose perspective on the truth because we’re too close to it. Fans in Ireland were among the earliest to embrace it as an anthem…The most interesting “overnight success” story in music these days lives in the Village: Julie Gold…Truth is, Gold had admirers even before From A Distance.”

- David Hinckley, Daily News

“Gold’s song (From A Distance) is a moving descendent of other songs of hope that have been popular through the years, such as Jerome Kern and Buddy DeSylva’s Look For The Silver Lining (1920), Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II’s You’ll Never Walk Alone (1945), Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ In The Wind (1962) and John Lennon’s Imagine (1971).”

- Irv Lichtman, Billboard Magazine

“Gold is a rising name in songwriting…her tune Heaven on Nanci Griffith’s MCA album Late Night Grande Hotel is getting lots of attention, and she’s co-writtten a gospel tune with Patti LaBelle (When You’ve Been Blessed). It’s on LaBelle’s MCA album Burnin’. Gold also wrote the song Try Love as a holiday greeting for HBO. She performed the tune as a music video. And she’s just finished a new holiday tune for HBO, One Voice One Heart, performed by the New York City boys Choir.”

- Tony Kiss, Asheville Citizen-Times

“The philosophical reflection (of From A Distance) expresses a one-world sentiment, starting from the global perspective we’ve gained in the Space Age, and it seems perfect for a time in which ideologies overlap and right and wrong are not so black and white. That has helped propel it to the top of the charts.”

- Steve Hochman, Los Angeles Times

“Gold wrote the song (From A Distance) in 60 minutes on the occasion of her 30th birthday and watched it become a defining moment in our musical history.”

- Thomas Grillo, The Boston Globe

“Solid Grammy For Gold…She has the hearts and minds of Americans…the ballad about how we tend to lose perspective on the truth has become an anthem.”

- Lydia Denworth, Newsweek

“From A Distance has struck a unique chord in our land and for that matter around the world. A beautiful ballad of humane concerns, it’s been embraced by more than a dozen different performers. At a recent gathering of Amnesty International supporters from the music industry, Jackson Browne and Carly Simon, Joan Baez, Peter Gabriel and Lou Reed applauded Gold’s performance of her song and Bonnie Raitt told the composer she’d written ‘a classic that will last forever’.”

- Jonathan Takiff , Philadelphia Daily News

“The words to Distance possess a simple wisdom that speaks to the heart.”

- Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today

“Gold collected a Grammy when Distance was named Song of the Year. The soothing tune of hope and harmony remains popular…Retail sheet-music sales of the song set all-time records as it was added to musical repertoires of tens of thousands of churches and synagogues and was the song of choice for weddings and graduations.”

- Heather B. Hayes, The Washington Times

“The lyrics, read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Rep. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) during the Persian Gulf hearings, espouse an equally simple, but poignant message: an appeal for harmony, love, hope and peace.”

- Sandy Bauers, The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Unlike some song professionals who punch a creative time clock each day to produce songs their publishers can peddle to recording artists, Gold has not adopted an assembly-line approach to her work…Gold’s higher profile has led to some high-powered co-writing liaisons…Carole Bayer Sager…Cyndi Lauper.”

- Jay Orr, Nashville Banner

”An American space shuttle docked with a Russian space station for the first time today, doing it so flawlessly that space officials hope it will aid the joint ambitions of the Russian and American space programs. It was the first coupling of American and Russian spacecraft in two decades…The astronauts were awakened today by ground controllers with the song From A Distance sung by Nanci Griffith.”

- William J. Broad, The New York Times

“Julie Gold simply exudes warmth, humility, honest, genuine sincerity, charm and agreat sense of humor…She is truly blessed – not just with talent and intelligence, but an infectious personality and inner strength.”

- Randy Alexander, Cherry Hill Times

“The Grammy-winning songwriter from Havertown made a triumphant return last week at a standing-room only concert at the Theater of the Living Arts. From the moment she first peered into the audience to her final encore, she held the audience in her talented little hands. You don’t see this kind of star quality often – Streisand and Midler in their early days come to mind."

- Susan Madrak, News of Delaware County